Management

This page includes content on healthcare management, including health system, hospital, department and clinic business management and administration. Areas of focus are on cardiology and radiology department business administration. Subcategories covered in this section include healthcare economics, reimbursement, leadership, mergers and acquisitions, policy and regulations, practice management, quality, staffing, and supply chain.

FDA clears AI-assisted CCTA software that assesses plaques for signs of heart disease
Caristo Diagnostics, an Oxford-based medtech company founded by cardiologists, has gained FDA clearance for its CaRi-Plaque technology.
Building a successful CCTA program: Physicians and healthcare executives to share advice
CCTA continues to grow more and more important in the day-to-day treatment of heart patients. Hospitals and health systems that fail to embrace the modality risk falling behind.
University of Missouri Health Care's 7T scanner joins exclusive ACR accreditation club
There are fewer than 40 of these 7T MRI scanners in North America, and MU Health Care’s is one of less than 10 to achieve ACR accreditation.
Radiologist arrested for secretly recording female patient's breasts during imaging
The accused has fessed up to secretly recording a patient with his smartphone while she underwent medical imaging.
Shift toward imaging outside the hospital could save billions
Harvard’s David A. Rosman, MD, MBA, explains how moving imaging outside of hospitals could save billions of dollars for U.S. healthcare.

U.S. hospitals reeling from economic crisis

Hospitals are suffering from the economic downturn and are enacting drastic changes to respond to today's tough economy, according to a recent report from healthcare contracting services firm Novation.

N.Y. stroke center installs Toshiba Aquilion One CT

Millard Fillmore Gates Circle Hospital in Buffalo, N.Y., has installed a Toshiba America Medical Systems' Aquilion One dynamic volume CT system at its Kaleida Health Stroke Center.

Siemens adds to CT presence at British hospital

The 850-bed Royal Liverpool University Hospital in Liverpool, England, has installed two Somatom Definition AS and AS+ CT scanners from Siemens Healthcare, joining a Somatom Sensation 16 already on site.

AMIC: MedPAC medical imaging report flawed, should be rejected

A recent recommendation from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) to change the formula that determines physician reimbursement rates for advanced imaging procedures "is based on a deeply flawed survey that should be rejected," according to the Access to Medical Imaging Coalition (AMIC). Specifically, MedPAC has called on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to significantly increase the formula's assumption about the amount of time that advanced imaging equipment is used by physicians by 40 percent, which will further slash reimbursement rates.

CAD for virtual colonography is cost-effective means of preventing cancers

The addition of computer-aided detection (CAD) to CT colonography screening improves the colorectal cancer prevention rate, resulting in advantageous cost-effectiveness for screening, according to a study in the February issue of Radiology.

CMS: Physician payment cuts in 2010 will help curb Medicare spending

In 2010, growth in national health expenditures is projected to decelerate to 4.6 percent, down from 5.5 in 2009, due to a projected decline in Medicare spending growth as a result of a 21 percent cut to Medicare physician payment rates, according to a healthcare spending projection report issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), prepared by CMS's Office of the Actuary and published online in Health Affairs.

IBM launches new EMR software, scores software installs

Capella Healthcare, Memorial Hermann Hospital System and Trillium Health Centre have deployed IBM software to help deliver real-time access to clinical and business information across multiple systems. Additionally, IBM has debuted a new suite of healthcare information sharing and analytics technologies in China, designed to enable the sharing of EMRs.

CT can designate when to alter acute appendicitis surgical management

By using CT to visualize indications of coexisting mucoceles in patients with acute appendicitis, surgical management may have to be altered, according to a study published in the March issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.

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Cardiovascular Business

Key trends in diagnostic heart testing: CT on the rise as some traditional techniques fall out of favor

The cardiac technologies clinicians use for CVD evaluations have changed significantly in recent years, according to a new analysis of CMS data. While some modalities are on the rise, others are being utilized much less than ever before.

Cardiovascular Business

ASE updates recommendations for assessing right heart function in patients with pulmonary hypertension

The new guidelines were designed to ensure sonographers and other members of the heart team have the information they need to screen patients when appropriate and identify early warnings signs of PH.

Radiology Business

Shift toward imaging outside the hospital could save billions

Harvard’s David A. Rosman, MD, MBA, explains how moving imaging outside of hospitals could save billions of dollars for U.S. healthcare.

Management

FDA clears AI-assisted CCTA software that assesses plaques for signs of heart disease

Building a successful CCTA program: Physicians and healthcare executives to share advice

University of Missouri Health Care's 7T scanner joins exclusive ACR accreditation club

Radiologist arrested for secretly recording female patient's breasts during imaging

Shift toward imaging outside the hospital could save billions

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